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BACK PAIN Symptoms and Causes

If you've ever groaned, "Oh, my aching back!", you are not alone. Backpain is one of the most common medical problems, affecting 8 out of 10 people at some point during their lives. Backpain can range from a dull, constant ache to a sudden, sharp pain.
Acute backpain comes on suddenly and usually lasts from a few days to a few weeks. Backpain is called chronic if it lasts for more than three months.

Most backpain goes away on its own, though it may take awhile. Taking over-the-counter pain relievers and resting can help. However, staying in bed for more than 1 or 2 days can make it worse.

If your backpain is severe or doesn't improve after three days, you should call your health care provider. You should also get medical attention if you have backpain following an injury.

Treatment for backpain depends on what kind of pain you have, and what is causing it. It may include hot or cold packs, exercise, medicines, injections, complementary treatments, and sometimes surgery.

NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

BACK PAIN Clinical Trials and Studies

Treatments might be new drugs or new combinations of drugs, new surgical procedures or devices, or new ways to use existing treatments. The goal of clinical trials is to determine if a new test or treatment works and is safe. Clinical trials can also look at other aspects of care, such as improving the quality of life for people with chronic illnesses. People participate in clinical trials for a variety of reasons. Healthy volunteers say they participate to help others and to contribute to moving science forward. Participants with an illness or disease also participate to help others, but also to possibly receive the newest treatment and to have the additional care and attention from the clinical trial staff.

Adverse Drug Event; Emergency Room Visit/Hospital Readmission; Failure to re-start community Medications used for chronic conditions after discharge from hospital.; Readiness for hospital discharge; Time to complete medication history and discharge medication reconciliation with prescription.; Therapy Duplication

Impact on serum potassium monitoring during potassium-increasing drug-drug-interactions; Frequency of hyperkalemia during potassium-increasing drug-drug-interactions; Frequency of potassium-increasing drug-drug-interactions ordered in the presence of hyperkalemia; Frequency of transfers to the ICU during potassium-increasing drug-drug-interactions in function of the serum potassium level; Frequency of death during potassium-increasing drug-drug-interactions in the presence or absence of hyperkalemia; Change in frequency distribution of serum potassium monitoring intervals; Response of physicians to the computer-based alerts and reminders

Proportion of potentially inappropriate Medications (PIM) prescribed in discharge of hospitalized patients from 75 years old.; Total number of drugs prescribed per discharge prescription sheet; Number of rehospitalization within 12 months following discharge; Number of emergency admission within 12 months following hospitalization; Mortality within 12 months after hospitalization

Identifying and solving adverse drug events (ADEs) and other drug-related problems (DRPs) post-discharge; Improvement of adherence to medication at hospital discharge; Patient assessment of medication knowledge at time of home visit; Types of interventions made at the pharmacist home visit; Patient satisfaction with the pharmacist home visit; Assessment of patient reported health rating; General practitioners satisfaction with the pharmacist home visit

Time to readmission to hospital; Number of Readmission; Number of GP consultations and GP home visits; Number of Accident and Emergency (A&E) visits; Medication Appropriateness Index (MAI) score; Health-related quality of life (HRQOL); Medication Adherence Assessments;; Cost Utility Analysis

Microfilaria prevalence based on results of microscopic examination of blood smears and skin snips.; Prevalence of filarial antigenemia in blood and intensity of filarial and intestinal worm infections based on results of microscopy.

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